My last goodbyes

My last goodbyes A Poem by debileah

Thankful the funeral is over I say my last goodbyes.

A few tears linger in my eyes.

Walk outside into the sunshine of this day in April.

The showers rained all day yesterday.

Today there is not a cloud in the sky.

My daughter said she kept seeing rainbows.

As I leave Urbanski's Funeral home,

I watch as everyone gets in their cars,

I wonder will any of them will stay in touch with me.

Now that my son is gone.

I doubt it, their lives are all too busy.

So now we're alone, the girls and me.

Oh yes, we have the grand-kids.

I sure babysit a lot.

But with so many deaths in our family,

over the past ten years, and now Bobby is gone.

He was the last surviving man of our immediate family.

The road ahead of us is really going to be a hard one to follow.

Well, it's time to go home, leave this place behind.

There's the American flag flying at half mass,

I'll always remember that.

 I'll always remember the Marines and the honoring of Taps.

And, the flag placed so gently upon my lap.

The clouds are beginning to form in the sky now.

White puffs of cotton like cotton-candy.

I'm glad it was a beautiful day.

Time to go, home.

Where it all began.